Time Frame I.V.

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Dec 5 11:07:04 CST 2008


I remember my family driving from LA to our new home in Virginia in
1968, three kids in the back of a VW wagon.  And Esso was giving away
free paper-craft sheets of a lunar-lander model.  I must have folded a
dozen or so of these as we did the cross-country trek!

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:40 AM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> I'm surprised no one's mentioned the '60s as The Space Age.  I was in sleepaway camp when the astronauts landed on the moon.  The damn counselors wouldn't let us stay up to watch it on TV.  I remember weeping in my bunk and fantasizing that the lunar landing would be called off at the last minute:  "Wait, we've decided there's no way we can walk on the moon without bringing along an 11-year-old girl, whom we'll pick at random..."



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